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...Minimum Agreement." Two decades of a false peace and the impact of global war had changed at least some sections of Senate thinking. The resolution's sponsors, who had sweated over the draft of their document for several weeks and buttonholed many a Senator for his ideas on it, hoped to muster a two-thirds majority...
Reduced from four battalions to two as a result of the draft and graduation of former Mil Sci 4 students, the Regiment will continue activities in much the same form as last fall, with drill on one of two days a week for all men. Major change is the fusing of Mil Sci 4 and 4x (Class of '44), with the top posts in the unit going to the best men in either class...
...America and Britain have different ideas on what Russia will want after the war, and the purpose of the visit is for the two countries to compare ideas and perhaps reach an agreement. It is also possible that its purpose is for the two nations to get together to draft an Auglo-American pact to present to the Soviet Union...
Already reclassified by his draft board (4-F to 1-A) was veteran Boy Wonder Orson Welles, 27. Asthmatic, arthritic, flatfooted, weak-backed, he asked for an immediate Army physical examination so that he could do a little civilian planning, was pronounced fit for limited service...
...will bring to the U.S., another generally unforeseen burden was added last week. Selective Service's Major General Lewis B. Hershey and Colonel Lewis Sanders hefted it for a Congressional Committee. Their prediction: to maintain itself at top strength, the U.S. will have to draft not 11,100,000, but 12,000,000. Reason: this year, at home and abroad, there will be 900,000 casualties...